Eugene Devlin and Phil Erickson were big shots in the department, fair-haired boys with powerful connections and thus big-time clout.
Mr Bhatt also raised SBI's horizons by suggesting it could play the role of an Indian champion, with a chunky presence abroad to help Indian firms globalise, and, in time, enough clout to rival Western and Chinese banks (see chart 2).Mr Chaudhuri says the broad strategy "continues".
At no other time has clout been more important to the startup trade.
Most of the time that clout is used to enrich, well, the rich who kick some back to politicians who play the game.
She's also just one of many models who devote their time and clout to charitable causes: Modelinia's got a whole list of generous stutters, from Coco Rocha's work in Haiti to Freja Beha Erichsen's gifts to Doctors Without Borders.
Compared with Californians, Wyoming ranchers have "72 times more clout per capita".
Yiannopoulos and his crew are "sincere" about feeling left behind in contemporary society's corridors of power which is why they, and Milo in particular, substitute a cheap brand of digital infamy for real-time political clout, deluding themselves into believing the former a more valuable currency in the medium- or long-term.
Frank can tell if someone is thinking in the key of C at the wrong time and will clout them for it.
Yet at the moment Mr. Gibson is viewed not as an artist flouting convention and mainstream Hollywood orthodoxies, but as a lobbyist for the fundamentalist religious movement in the United States at a time when its clout is unmistakably on the rise.
But the verdict reached by millions almost impulsively, that he lacked (at least at that time) the judgement, clout and indefinable x-factor of a plausible prime minister, was surely closer to the truth.Indeed, Mr Gladwell would question whether such rapid judgements are irrational at all.
Not the least of the accomplishments under his aegis was the recruitment of David Letterman, giving the network for the first time in ages competitive clout and an edge in the late-night arena.
